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Depends On Education By Jean Anyon Summary

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Success Depends on Education or Cultural Assumptions Many have the assumption that an education is based on how hard someone may work for what they want but others believe that it can be based on social class or a “banking concept of education.” There are expectations set for students that must be reached to be able to be “successful” and to have a career with a better future rather than having no career at all. Author Jean Anyon gives a paradigm of the social classes and how they all differ from one another but also the outcome of each specific educational system. Anyon separates schools into four different categories based on social class: working class, middle-class, affluent professional, and executive elite. Anyon gives example on …show more content…

Tavernise statement connects with Darryl Robinson’s ideas because he worked hard to be where he is and kept going even if there was failure along the way, he never let it stop him from achieving his goals and Tavernise stated; “In fact, as we’ve established in class discussions, many of you have come to college with the hope that attaining a degree will lead you to greater success in life.” Unlike Anyon, D. Robinson believes that an education is based on how someone is taught and what not based upon their social class. U.S schools should consider all possible jobs for every social class and teach all schools alike, not based on their income. They should stop categorizing students based upon income and start categorizing based on learning …show more content…

It really does not matter what social class you come from as long as you know what you want to achieve and you work hard for it. For example, D. Robinson stated; “I hope my grades will reflect the extra effort I’ve put in every day. I go to tutoring twice a week, and I routinely attend my professor's office hours.” (123) D. Robinson had to study twice as hard to be able to get the grades he wanted and to be able to make it through his college career even though he felt as if he was prepared because he made it through middle and high school. D. Robinson was so determined to make it to Georgetown that he did everything possible and applied himself into his school work to make it happen. I myself am the biggest procrastinator ever, for example; if possible I am always turning in my essays late and I will not start them until the day before they are do, I might set up my ideas but I will not begin the actual process. Even with my bad habit of procrastinating, I always try my best to get good grades and the only reason is because I do not want to let my dad down, he has always worked his ass off to provide me with everything I need and want. He is the only reason I work my ass off in school even if

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Jean Anyon and Robin Mark 's articles share and talk about the same points, which are relates to social class (socioeconomic status) in higher education. ' 'The Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work ' ' by Anyon , claimed that schools in wealthy communities are better than schools in poor communities. She observed five elementary schools over the course of a year, in different economic environments which teach students in different ways in each of these schools depending on their the social status. According to Jean, there are four different rating of schools like, working-class schools, middle-class schools, affluent professional schools, and executive elite schools. (Jean , 170)

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More value is placed on children and families with more money, while working-class schools often receive incredibly poor education. As Anyon states, "Differing curricular, pedagogical, and pupil evaluation practices emphasize differing cognitive and behavioral skills in each social setting and thus contribute to the development in the children of certain potential relationships to physical and symbolic capital, to authority, and to the process of work." (151) When pupils at lower-class schools are only instructed to memorize and not to think for themselves, they're set up to be at a large disadvantage to those who've received an upper-class education and learned how to draw their own conclusions and really assert themselves. This disadvantage manifests primarily in the types of jobs available to such students after graduation, and subsequently, the social class that they'll fall into given their income level. Working-class students are more likely to get blue-collar jobs, while students from the professional or elite class will land higher up the corporate ladder.

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She shares her experience observing in schools of different social classes. Like Lareau, Anyon talks about how social class affects what children learn in school. She distinguishes among four classes, the working class, middle-class, affluent professional and the executive elite. Working class children, Anyon shares, are being prepared for wage labor. Middle class children are being prepared for white collar jobs, that is work in an office or other administrative setting.

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